Help! Silkie not walking and diarrhea.

[Rosiecheeks]

im new to this raising chicken thing and i have a silkie rooster who I noticed this morning is not walking.
Brought him inside and noticed he has smelly diarrhea also.
When I brought him in he was eating and drinking normal.
I checked his feet and it looks like he has a bad case of scaly leg mite but it’s hard to tell as when I first got him he has scaled leg mite bad and I treated him but some of his raised scales never fell off. But the mites where gone. Anyways I went back into check on him he is now laying on his side. Eyes closing and opening like he’s dozing off.
All my other chickens are fine. He has no problems breathing no discharge from his nose.
I’m not sure what can be wrong with him?
Could this all be mites?
Could he have hurt one of his legs somehow. How would I be able to tell?
He has no wounds that I could see.
I checked his feet they seem cold (not freezing but not warm) to me and I’m not sure if that’s normal or not.
One foot when I touch he pulls back
The other foot seems lifeless. But I don’t know.

 

[azygous]

These are symptoms of a serious illness, not leg mites. A chicken lying on its side, unable to stand, eyes closed is near death. Once a chicken reaches this stage, it's very difficult to treat it successfully since they usually are unable to eat and drink.

This could be contagious and your other chickens have been exposed already. You need to be watchful for any signs of them getting sick. You can take a sample of the poop from this sick rooster to a vet and ask for a simple fecal float test to determine if he has been made sick by an overload of worms or coccidia. If it's positive, you will then know you need to treat the other chickens for the same thing. There may still be time to treat this rooster oif you ask for the results to be expedited. Depending on the results, you would treat for coccidiosis with Corid or worms with a worming medicine.

There's a possibility of a serious avian virus. Most are not treatable. You would only be able to find out if this rooster is sick from one of these viruses by sending him to a poultry lab for a necropsy after he dies. In this case, you would need to refrigerate, not freeze, him while you locate the lab.

There's also a possibility this rooster got into something toxic such as insecticide, botulism from rotting veggies, or by eating toxic berries from a poisonous plant. A necropsy would be able to determine this.

 

[Rosiecheeks]

Thank you! I know this is serious and it has me so worried about what it could be! I feel horrible I don’t want him so suffer. I’m worried about the rest of my birds.

 

[azygous]

Yes, you have reason to be worried. But the fecal float test is a very good first step, and it can deliver results in as little as an hour, depending on whether you know the vet well enough to sweet talk them into getting right on it. I've known my vet for 25 years, and he charged me $20 for the last float test and I had the results on my way home from grocery shopping. There are further tests, but they take much more time and are of dubious value at this stage of your rooster's illness.

If you can get some fluids into your little roo, if he will swallow, that's something you can do. He could respond, and if he is able to move, you might entice him to eat some boiled egg. If these things fail, I'm afraid it's too late for him.

 

[Eggcessive]

How is you rooster doing? It sounds like he might have Mareks disease. Is he able to reach his food and water? The best way to diagnose Mareks is with a necropsy done by the state vet after death. You cannot see scaly leg mites, so you may want to continue treatment with oiling his legs once a week. Here is a link to contact your state vet, and an article to read about Mareks disease:
http://www.metzerfarms.com/PoultryLabs.cfm

http://extension.umd.edu/sites/exte...Preventing Mareks Disease in Small Flocks.pdf

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/the-great-big-giant-mareks-disease-faq.66077/